Charles Sykes is the author of Dumbing Down Our Kids.
Mr. Sykes offered high school and college graduates a list of things he did not learn in
school. In his book, he talks about how the liberal, feel-good, politically correct
garbage has created a generation of kids with no concept of reality, and set them up for
failure in the real world.

Rule 1  Life is not fair; get used to it.

Rule 2  The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to
accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3  You will not make $40,000 / year right out of high school. You won't be a
vice president with a car phone until you "earn" both.

Rule 4  If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't
have tenure.

Rule 5  Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
grandparents had a different word for burger-flipping; they called it opportunity.

Rule 6  If you foul-up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your
mistakes. Learn from them.

Rule 7  Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.
They got that way paying your bills, cleaning your room, and listening to you tell them
how idealistic you are. So before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking
parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8  Your school may have done away with winners and losers,
but life has not. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades.
They'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This, of course, bears
not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

Rule 9  Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very
few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10  Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave
the coffee shop, and go to jobs.